Telegram cannot replace the use case of Chinese living in the US keep contact with their family in China (because Telegram is blocked in China, as you said), bu

Telegram cannot replace the use case of Chinese living in the US keep contact with their family in China (because Telegram is blocked in China, as you said), but it could replace the use case of Chinese living in the US contact each other. I hate wechat for its user experience, when my mom need to say something to me she usually send wechat message to my wife, because I check my wechat for, maybe, once per week. But a lot of Chinese living in the US seem to not mind its user experience, and like to use wechat as the way of contact each other. I think one of the reason might be that in the US there's not one dominate IM app that everyone is using, so wechat is like the next best thing that at lease every Chinese is using. Now a lot of Chinese also start to use Telegram there's hope (but I won't hold my breath for it).